PRE-DEGREE/CERTIFICATE REGISTRATION/SCHOOL FEES
Enaohwo Highlights Gains Of Bridge-Building For Optimal Educational Planning
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- Published: 06 May 2021
By Otikor Samuel
For too long, academics have operated and p r a c t i s e d t h e i r p ro f e s s i o n f ro m a n esoteric perspective to the exclusion of those considered as non experts or specialists, whereas inclusion of these non-specialists could contribute to certain breakthroughs as most early innovations were discoveries from nonexperts in the field.
Professor John Enaohwo of the Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Education made the submission, while delivering the 16th Valedictory Lecture at the Ebi timi Banigo Auditorium on August 26, 2020. The Lecture was entitled: Leveraging the Clientele and Interest Groups for Optimal Effectiveness in Development Planning in Education.
The former Vice Chancellor of Delta State University, Abraka, stated that leverage could be considered from endogenous and exogenous
perspectives. Endogenous leverage, he said involves internal cooperation among members of same profession to solve a problem, while
e x o g e n o u s l e v e r a g e t a k e s p l a c e b e t we e n members of a profession and people, experts or i nt erest groups who do not bel ong t o t he occupational group.
“Leveraging does not involve depending on the clientele or end-users in order to carry out one's duties in a chosen profession or practice, rather the process of leveraging consists of cooperating and rel at i ng wi t h end- users f or necessary feedback for self-improvement in any chosen prof e s s i on, pr ac t i c e and oc c upat i on. Thi s feedback and interaction with the clientele or patients, students, or members of the society
c o ul d re s ul t i n ul t i ma t e e nha nc e me nt o r innovation for better practice,” he said. “In exceptional cases, clients or members of the
public who are laymen or experts in different f i e l d s h a v e c o n t r i b u t e d i m m e n s e l y t o innovations in several professions, to the benfit of all. Such leverage could be of immense value to development planning in education,” Professor Enaohwo said, pointing out that development planning comprises performance plans with clearly spelt out goals to address specific needs. Listing several inventions and innovations by experts and non-professionals from other fields, Enaohwo who became a Professor twelve years after his first degreee, described students as the main catalysts to any success in education. According to him, the role of students is enhanced by their natural ability , age and their interaction in the environment through learning.
Ot h e r c r i t i c a l s t a k e h o l d e r s i n t h e d e t e r mi n a n t s o f o u t c o me s t h r o u g h d e v e l o pme n t p l a n n i n g i n e d u c a t i o n i n c l u d e : p a r e n t s , g u a r d i a n s , n o n governmental organisations, foreign and local agencies and donor organisations.
Professor Enaohwo, who put up forty years of service, was a pioneer staff of the University. He was promoted to the rank
of a Professor in October 1987. Reacting to the Lecture, the Acting Vice Chancellor , Professor Stephen Okodudu, stated that the Lecture drew the attention of the audience that all knowledge are mu l t i d i s c i p l i n a r y a n d s h o u l d d r a w strength from one another. .
